Bushwalk Australia

The Autumn edition of Wild magazine has quite a good survey of lightweight tents by John Chapman.

The survey lists such things as room, access, cost, weight, and value as well as much other usefull stuff

Flyfisher.

Yep. Got that. You must have missed this?
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tasadam wrote:Of interest, John Chapman did a review of tents in the latest Wild magazine. I picked up a copy from Paddy Pallin in Launceston earlier inthe week.

The thing I don't like about the survey is that there are only two 4 season tunnel tents - the 1st / 2nd arrow (forget which) and I think the Minaret (It's downstairs & I'm lazy).

Apart from the Tempest, which puts me off due to condensation issues as it's a single skin.

Hi Adam, yeah I missed the other tent survey comment.Just arrived home with new Wild,saw the survey and put up the post.

I find they do give details on size, weight, no. of pegs etc which many people could find usefull to shorten their shortlist.

Cheers John.

There are a number of interesting articles in that magazine.
Like for example, I remember when I was in Kakadu in 1988, I swam up past Twin Falls to the slope that you can walk up to get to the top.
Then I read

There aren't any crocodiles on the plateau, but you should never swim below Twin Falls.

I'm lucky to be here.....

Teasing the crocs, eh?

Son of a Beach wrote:Teasing the crocs, eh?

Nah. Come to think of it, not enough of me for a meal... or they didn't see me or thought I was a stick or something... Stick insect?